[ppseafield]

I've had a similar experience as the GP, and I find it awful that autoplay videos will follow you around the page, pop-up modals will interrupt you in the middle of reading something, and ads will take up 40% or more of the page, loading between paragraphs while reading. It's hugely distracting to me.

We could make the same argument: you've spend years without adblock, and they have worn you down to the point where you accept active mental blocking of highly distracting ads. And even then you say sometimes it's bad enough for you to leave the site.

[Goronmon]

I've had a similar experience as the GP, and I find it awful that autoplay videos will follow you around the page, pop-up modals will interrupt you in the middle of reading something, and ads will take up 40% or more of the page, loading between paragraphs while reading. It's hugely distracting to me.

Why would you ever spend time on a site that did these things? Even if you have an adblocker, why would you use such a site on purpose?

[ppseafield]

You don't always know what a link is going to serve you before you go there.

[Wowfunhappy]

And if the page served is unreadable, you immediately hit the back button and move on. :)